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VICTOR WOLFVOET II (ANTWERP 1612-1652)
Amarillis and Mirtillo
oil on copper
2712 x 3418 in. (69.9 x 86.7 cm.)
Provenance
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 3 November 1999, lot 180, as 'Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck'.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 19 October 2000, lot 78, as 'Circle of Sir Anthony van Dyck', where acquired by the present owner.
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Lot Essay

The painting repeats the composition of a work commissioned from Sir Anthony van Dyck in 1632 by the Stadholder Frederik Hendrik of Orange, which hung in the Binnenhof (The Hague), now located in the collections at Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden. Victor Wolfvoet II was a dealer as well as a painter, and is known to have produced copies after the foremost painters of his day, including both van Dyck and Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

We are grateful to Dr. Bert Schepers for proposing the attribution on the basis of photographs and for his kind help with cataloguing the present lot.

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